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Energy harvester generates continuous nanoampere current

By Matthew Miller, Editor In Chief, EDN.com -- EDN, 5/24/2007

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a tiny device that produces a direct current by harnessing the piezoelectric output of hundreds of swaying zinc-oxide nanowires. The device features a forest of vertically oriented nanowires, whose tips lie in the valleys of a peak-and-valley-shaped electrode. Buffeted by ultrasonic waves or mechanical vibration, the wires flex, periodically contacting an electrode and transferring their electrical charge. A prototype device produces current in the nanoampere range, but the researchers claim the technology can scale to produce 4W/cm³.



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